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Key
Objectives and Desired Outcomes
The
Forum's next steps 1999-2001
1.
Continue to provide a public forum and reach out to the public
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Promote
and otherwise support public outreach and education programs to
engage and mobilize citizens and communities throughout the Valley
in considering alternative futures.
- Public
outreach on the Forum's report, Choices for the Future.
Develop an outreach/communications plan for taking the report
on the road to stimulate public discussion about the issues, vision
and recommendations. Consistent with the plan, make presentations
to editorial boards, elected officials, Forum constituent groups,
communities, and neighborhoods and prepare written materials,
slide program and video for use in the presentations.
- Support
and coordinate public outreach on 50-year scenarios and related
recommendations.
Carry out the public involvement tasks of the Transportation and
Community and System Preservation project.
- Coordinate
public outreach with the Willamette Restoration Initiative workshops.
When
possible, support Willamette Research Initiative outreach activities.
- Serve
as a key stakeholder group and sounding board for ODOT and WRI.
Serve
as a key stakeholder body in the I-5 Corridor planning project
and as a sounding board for a variety of transportation issues
and proposals, including Oregon Department of Transportation access
management policy, the Oregon Transportation Plan update, and
other similar initiatives. Serve as a key stakeholder body in
the Willamette Restoration Initiative's development of a Restoration
Strategy and as a sounding board for WRI proposals and how they
can be integrated with land use, transportation, economic and
community issues and priorities.
2.
Continue to Build Linkages Between Valley Leaders/Decision Makers
Organize
and support meetings of the Forum to bring together representatives
of the range of interests in the Valley to enable them to share
concerns, better understand trends and interrelationships, and
build the linkages to create and implement the Forum's vision.
- Organize
and support sub-regional meetings of Forum members to address
growth issues in the four sub-regions of the Valley.
- Help
coordinate and facilitate the efforts of emerging regional partnerships,
particularly on topics that link the regions in the Valley (e.g.,
economy, transportation, watershed health, and growth management).
3.
Support Development and Analysis of Alternative 50-Year Scenarios
for the Valley
Facilitate
coordination of work on land use scenario development and analysis,
including consideration of alternative transportation scenarios;
and develop recommended actions and implementation strategies
based on analysis of scenarios. (Transportation and Community
and System Preservation grant-funded project)
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